This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from the Car Mechanic Tycoon website or Mobile App.
We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, register on the site, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site.
We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.
We will collect the following information from our users, the user must enter this manually:
Payment providers will collect personal information as well, but only when starting a payment. More information can be found at the "Collection of Payment data" section of this document.
More information about the removal of the personal information can be found at the "Data removal" section of this document.
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site or Apps.
We will collect the following information from our users automatically:
Our Site may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. User's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site (like the login and registration functions) may not function properly anymore. More information about the cookies being used on our services, can be found in the sections "Advertising", "Google Adsense" & "Google Analytics" of this document.
We may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password (all hashed before storage), transaction information and data stored on our servers.
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers for the purposes outlined above. We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the Site or administer activities on our behalf, such as sending out newsletters or surveys. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes provided that you have given us your permission.
We don't send electronic newsletters.
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website's own terms and policies.
Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. You may learn more about opting out of major ad networks at https://websitebuilders.com/tools/advertiser-opt-out/.
Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses "non personally identifiable information" and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google“. Google Analytics employs so-called “cookies“, text files that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site.
The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.
This service may also collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site or Apps. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
We use Google Analytics with an IP anonymization feature. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address before transferring it.
Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of our site, to compile reports on website activity for us, and to provide other services related to website- and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or to the extent this data is processed by third parties on Google´s behalf.
Google states that it will in never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our website.
If you would like to delete any GA data - please delete your _ga cookies.
Google also offers a disabling option for the most common browsers, thus providing you with greater control over the data which is collected and processed by Google. If you enable this option, no information regarding your website visit is transmitted to Google Analytics. However, the activation does not prevent the transmission of information to us or to any other web analytics services we may use. For more information about the disabling option provided by Google, and how to enable this option, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
As an adition to Google Analytics, Google Firebase will be used for our mobile apps. We'll for example use this to track app crashes, network speed and more app related functions. The same policy applies as the one for Google Analytics as stated in section 11 of this document.
The Google privacy policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy
On our iOS and Android app we might request your location to let you receive country- and/or language-based push notifications. We don't collect exact locations. Instead we only collect the country your device is in.
We will save credit logs of the users that bought premium functions/credits. This includes the username, e-mail, their IP Address and the changes in the amount of premium credits.
We will also save a payment log with extra required details for our accounting, which depending on your payment method, might include your Name, Payment Method, Payment Adress or Country. We don't save any payment data like Creditcard information, bank or paypal accounts. This will only be collected by the Payment Provider the user used for buying credits, in-app purchases or when buying the app. These payment providers include:
We have the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will change the date at the bottom of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
By using our services, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our services. Your continued use of the services following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Some information will be automatically deleted. We will remove the following information automatically:
All other personal and non-personal information collected by us can be removed from our servers by deleting your account or sending us an email from the email account used for registration. The data will be deleted immediately when doing it yourself or after our confirmation if requested via email.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, our apps, or your dealings with our services, please feel free to contact us via e-mail.
This document was last updated on December 2, 2023